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state of mind of the farmer who is seriously seeking the best 

 means of protecting his crops against the ravages of insects? 

 With the Bureau of Education teaching the school children to 

 follow one method of selecting seed corn, or of preparing soil 

 for rice, and the Bureau of Agriculture recommending to the 

 parents of these children another method, the confusion is com- 

 plete, and the public confidence in much of the agricultural 

 teaching is shaken. 



This overlapping has been the result of a very rapid devel- 

 opment, and the natural outgrowth of a condition where there 

 was more to do than the agencies at work could accomplish. 

 Some of the duplication is economical and justifiable and some 

 of it is unnecessary and wasteful. 



Contrary to expectations, I found very little destructive ri- 

 valry in the Bureaus and institutions studied and there was 

 every evidence of a desire on the part of the oflfiicers of each 

 institution to recognize the natural field of work of the others 

 and an entire willingness on the part of each fully to cooperate 

 with the other. It will be comparatively easy, therefore, to sub- 

 stitute for the duplication pointed out a most efltective system 

 of cooperation. 



UNITING THE AGRICULTURAL FORCES 



The work of the Bureau of Agriculture, the Bureau of For- 

 estry, the College of Agriculture, and the College of Veterinary 

 Medicine falls into the same general class. Especially is there 

 no natural line of demarcation between the fields of operation 

 of the Bureau of Agriculture and the College of Agriculture. 

 Any attempt to maintain an arbitrary line betw^een these two 

 institutions and to make each respect the field of work assigned 

 to the other will result in an ineflflcient Bureau and a weak 

 college. To allow both to spread out over the whole field is 

 likely to increase the cost of maintenance beyond the power of 

 the Government to meet it. 



In a country as extensive and wealthy as the United States, 

 a Federal Department of Agriculture at the National Capitol 

 and a college of agriculture in each State is the logical arrange- 

 ment, though the cost of maintaining this system of agricul- 

 tural education and research in the United States is nearly 

 f*=100,000,000 a year, or about half as much as the income from 

 all the farms in the Philippines. 



If the Philippine Islands were large enough to warrant the 

 establishment of a seperate college of agriculture in each of 

 the provinces, then a strong Insular Department of Agriculture 



